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Ability
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Actors, Acting
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Age
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Animals
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Architecture
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Atheism
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, Where is it?
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Criticism
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Dance, Dancing
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How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Death
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Dreams
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Enthusiasm
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Experience
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Friends
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Genius
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Goodness
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Gossip
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Government
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Greatness & Great Things
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Honor
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Humor
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Ideas
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Kindness
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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Books by and about Samuel Taylor Coleridge